A major new edition of the world's most respected reference book on wine

Almost 4,000 A-Z entries on a breathtaking range of topics, from grape varieties and regions to viticulture, growers, and the history of wine

Exhaustively revised and updated to include the very latest international research and opinion

Edited by the award-winning television host and Financial Times wine correspondent, Jancis Robinson OBE, Master of Wine

Almost 400 brand new entries including globalization, the politics of wine, co-fermentation, and brands, plus significant new updates on subjects such as climate change, yeast, barrel alternatives, viniculture, and virtually all wine regions

Beautiful new page design incorporating new colour photographs and black and white line drawings

New to this edition

Comprehensively revised and updated throughout

Over 400 brand new entries including globalization, the politics of wine, brands, precision viticulture, and co-fermentation

Significant new updates on hundreds of topics such as climate change, yeast, closures (for example synthetic corks and screwcaps) and their associated faults, barrel alternatives, viticulture and viniculture

Impressive global coverage of new wine regions, including Myanmar and Tanzania

Top local experts contribute entries on their specialist regions, such as James Halliday on Australia, Michael Fridjhon and John Platter on South Africa, and Patricio Tapia on Chile and Argentina

Stunning new page design

Includes brand new colour photographs and black and white line drawings

Published in 1994 to worldwide acclaim, the first edition of Jancis Robinson's seminal volume immediately attained legendary status, winning every major wine book award including the Glenfiddich and Julia Child/IACP awards, as well as writer and woman of the year accolades for its editor on both sides of the Atlantic. Combining meticulously-researched fact with refreshing opinion and wit, The Oxford Companion to Wine presents almost 4,000 entries on every wine-related topic imaginable, from regions and grape varieties to the owners, connoisseurs,
growers, and tasters in wine through the ages; from viticulture and oenology to the history of wine, from its origins to the present day.

Now exhaustively updated, this third edition incorporates the very latest international research to present almost 400 new entries on topics ranging from globalization and the politics of wine to brands, precision viticulture, and co-fermentation. Hundreds of entries have undergone major revision, among them yeast, barrel alternatives, climate change, and virtually all wine regions; and useful lists and statistics are appended, including controlled appellations and their permitted grape varieties, and wine production and consumption
by country.

Illustrated with maps of every important wine region in the world, useful charts and diagrams, and stunning colour photographs, this Companion is unlike any other wine book, offering an understanding of wine in all of its wider contexts - notably historical, cultural, and scientific - and serving as a truly companionable point of reference into which any wine-lover can dip and browse.

Contributors: there are more than 100 expert contributors from around the world. A full list can be found in the Companion.

"...the most useful book on wine ever written; it is also one of the most enjoyable." - Kathleen Burk, The Week

"Those readers interested enough in the subject to buy the first edition are pretty much compelled to buy all subsequent ones, for the knowledge encompassed in them changes not only rapidly, but also radically." - Paul Levy, Times Literary Supplement

MapsPrefaceContributorsAcknowledgementsList of new entriesComplete list of entries by subjectNote to the readerAlphabetical entriesComplete list of controlled appellations and their permitted grape varietiesVineyard area, wine production, and per capita wine consumption by countryPicture credits

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